Video: PICKLEWEEK.COM Offers 'Dilly'-icious Ways to Celebrate International Pickle...

Video: PICKLEWEEK.COM Offers 'Dilly'-icious Ways to Celebrate International
Pickle Week and Every Week

Site Features Pickles in Cooking Videos & Recipes and a Pickle as a Facebook
Friend

MINNEAPOLIS, May 19 /PRNewswire/ --

WHO: M.A. Gedney Company, producer of popular Gedney, Cain's and Del Monte
Pickles, supports www.pickleweek.com with activities created for
pickle-lovers. The site highlights ways to Celebrate International Pickle Week
- May 15-25, 2009. IPW was created in 1948 by Pickle Packers International.*

To view the Multimedia News Release, go to:
http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/pickleweek/38390/

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090519/NY19321LOGO )

WHAT: Pickleweek.com offers these dill-lightful features:

* View Pickle Cooking Video: View short cooking demo videos in English and
Spanish offering tips on cooking with pickles and their juice.

* Befriend a Pickle: a Facebook friend of Dilly Pickle (facebook.com)

* Share a Juicy Tale: Americans eat an average of nine pounds of pickles every
year*. So chances are, most people have a pickle story to share. Now they can
share their juicy tales or pictures at pickleweek.com.

* Send an E-Card: Relish the love of pickles by sending e-cards to friends.

* Download Pickle Coupons: Discount product coupons are perfectly pleasing to
a pickle-lover's pocketbook. Printable coupons are redeemable at local
retailers.

WHEN: International Pickle Week is May 15-25, 2009 but true pickle-lovers make
EVERY WEEK Pickle Week.

WHERE: via the web! Visit www.pickleweek.com

WHY: "Pickles have been popular for thousands of years," said Joe Pinto, VP of
marketing and sales for M.A. Gendey Company. "From Cleopatra to Elvis Presley,
millions of people have been -- and continue to be -- fans of pickles. Pickle
Week gives us a fun reason to try new recipes, promote our many pickle
varieties and share fond stories and traditions with other pickle fans."

ABOUT M.A. GEDNEY COMPANY:
For more than 125 years, M.A. Gedney Company has been making extraordinary
pickles, condiments, dressings and preserves. M.A. Gedney Company makes and
markets a variety of pickles, including the State Fair line, under the Gedney
brand name throughout the Midwest and produces and markets Del Monte pickles
and relish across the U.S. under license from Del Monte Foods. In the
northeastern U.S., Gedney makes and markets pickles under the Cains brand
name. M.A. Gedney Company is headquartered in Chaska, Minn. For more
information, visit www.gedneypickle.com or www.delmontepickle.com.

* Source: Pickle Packers International website - ilovepickles.org

SOURCE M.A. Gedney Company

Jennifer Armstrong, +1-773-663-4305, jen@themurphygroup.com, or DaleAnn
Murphy, +1-612-860-0982, daleann@themurphygroup.com, both for M.A. Gedney
Company